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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺

@bonitoclub.bsky.social
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Melbourne/Naarm, Australia Retired librarian who can knit his own cardigans. "I am loads of fun all the time. I am a delight." he/him

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Given the Coalition is now suddenly very concerned over what will happen if people retire while renting, a reminder they knew this was coming while Frydenberg was treasurer - their own review into retirement income highlighted this was a problem. They did nothing. treasury.gov.au/publication/...
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Retirement Income Review - Final Report | Treasury.gov.au
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“Charlie [Pickering] is a seasoned media professional. He would know exactly who Avi Yemini is. He didn't have to engage with him … he made a direct choice to cosy up to a man found guilty of abusing his wife, while denouncing me as ignorant. Surely I needn’t point out the irony here." - Grace Tame
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Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 20/04/2026
Details here: www.premier.vic.gov.au/more-trains-...
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More Trains and More Services - And PT Is Cheaper All Year
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Used the free Victoria public transport to go to my dentist appointment today. The 510 bus was a bit busier than usual. #Melbourne
Route 510 bus stop sign
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Seven Sisters London Underground station is named after a ring of 7 elm trees that were planted over 400 years ago. The 7 trees have been replanted a number of times, always by 7 sisters. The current sisters are Hornbeam trees & were planted in 1997 by 5 families of 7 sisters.
Seven Sisters London Underground station
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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Yet watermelons and song lyrics are hate speech.
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"One of the first things I noticed when I started driving less and walking or cycling more is how, at the end of a day, I often have an inexplicable sense of excitement, as if something remarkable has happened..." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more
Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Starts on Tuesday until the end of April www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Victorians get free public transport for a month in bid to ease surge in fuel demand
Allan government says measure is temporary as energy shock from Middle East conflict sees petrol prices soar
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Literally this
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I wrote about the one actually great thing that happened this week
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How to get people excited about transit
"It will literally be your best selling t-shirt, it will get you so much PR, and if anyone interprets this inappropriately that's a them problem"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
Toronto shopping street
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I kinda hate the "imagine if" gambit, but ffs, imagine if this sort of evidence had been accrued about attacks on synagogues and Jewish members of parliaments. The prime minister and all of officialdom would be bending over backwards (quite rightly) to find the perpetrators.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“Readers can make up their own minds about what they would like to attend.” Well said. A point basically ignored by most of the press in the Adelaide writers fiasco: no-one was MAKING audiences go to Randa’s session. The pro-Israel lobby decided no-one could see her, even if it ruined the festival.
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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Motherfuckers. #FreePalestine. #RiverToTheSea.
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"How is it that people engaged in peaceful prayer can be moved on faster, more forcibly, than black-shirted Neo-Nazis standing outside NSW Parliament?" - Ed Husic
"How is it that people engaged in peaceful prayer can be moved on faster, more forcibly, than black-shirted Neo-Nazis standing outside NSW Parliament?" Ed Husic
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Really looking forward to Minns and the Chief of Police explaining the context of this beat down
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Naomi Parry Duncan @drnaomi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Just caught a smidge of the press conference at Bondi and heard Herzog say demonstrations delegitimise the existence of Israel. Mate, they delegitimise GENOCIDE.
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I confess I never thought I'd be watching a hockey podcast www.vulture.com/article/heat...
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Watching Straight Men Watch Heated Rivalry
The romance phenomenon has captivated the dudes and bros.
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Even the British Museum is quoting Heated Rivalry www.instagram.com/p/DTkZ7yVDfv...
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britishmuseum on Instagram: "‘I’m coming to the cottage.’ — Ilya Rozanov, Heated Rivalry. 🏒 Lill Tschudi (1911–2004), ‘Ice Hockey’. Colour linocut, printed in …"
‘I’m coming to the cottage.’ — Ilya Rozanov, Heated Rivalry. 🏒 Lill Tschudi (1911–2004), ‘Ice Hockey’. Colour linocut, printed in grey, green and black, on oriental laid paper, Switzerland, 1933.#HeatedRivalry #IceHockey @heatedrivalrycrave
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
What is it about Labor politicians in this country & their utter capitulation to the Zionist lobby? What exactly are they afraid of? You keep giving into bullies and they only keep coming back for more. Malinauskus has just blown up his own state’s reputation for enlightened liberalism. What a hack.
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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Gotta say, the cancellation of Adelaide Writers' Week gives me some hope for Australia's ability to navigate this. A great loss for the literary community, but writers/thinkers/audiences aren't going to stand for the bullying and pressure. Unclear when the politicians are going to figure it out.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Few words. My @smh @theage cartoon
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What is the end game here? No publicly funded cultural events that aren’t approved by Israel? No arts boards that aren’t pro-Israel? The sections of our political class and media who are active in this attempted gutting of our cultural landscape need to ask wtf they are doing here.
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Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide
After ruining the Adelaide and Bendigo writers festivals, pro-Israel supporters are now targeting WOMADelaide’s inclusion of Sama’ Abdulhadi
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Adelaide Festival / Writers’ Week now the biggest collapse in South Australia since the state bank (probably)
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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Will there be calls for a Royal Commission into Islamophobia? Will Grant Hackett get involved? Will community leaders blast the Albanese government for not listening to the Islamophobia envoy? Will Pauline Hanson be castigated by Sky for causing this, as Mehreen Faruqi was castigated over Bondi?
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Unfortunately for Malinauskas, the internet remembers. Instagram user beccilove dug out this quote from a few years ago.
Screenshot of instagram post quoting Premier Peter Malinauskas by beccilove.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Have a quiet think. Let it be a guiding lesson for you Whatever regretful comments you may have made in your life, whatever actions you wish you could take back, let your benchmark for the lowest of the low be using the deaths of 15 people for the relaunch of your political career
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Popped into the city to pick up my order at Beekeeper Parade followed by obligatory ride on the new Melbourne metro from Town Hall to State Library, then an easy connection to the Mernda line at Melbourne Central.
Town Hall station entrance Town Hall station platformMetro train arriving at State Library
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Find something you hate more than The Age hates passenger rail. You can't, it's simply impossible.
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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
According to ABC news Melbourne, it seems Labor started the metro tunnel 10 years ago just to win the 2026 state election That Dan Andrews was a cunning devil
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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025
Announcement at Footscray that the first #MetroTunnel train "has left Sunbury on time and is already full" #MelbourneTrains
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 12/11/2025
Take that, SNCF! 🤣 European Sleeper to run Paris-Berlin night train from the spring of next year www.lemonde.fr/economie/art... There are hurdles - doing it by then isn’t simple - but this can happen.
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Le train de nuit Paris-Berlin abandonné par la SNCF va être relancé par une coopérative belgo-néerlandaise
European Sleeper compte ouvrir les réservations le 16 décembre et démarrer l’exploitation de la ligne entre les capitales française et allemande le 26 mars 2026.
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Victoria urged to ramp up train, tram and bus services – and make off-peak transport cheaper
Infrastructure Victoria urges Labor to boost public transport in key Melbourne suburbs
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The last sneak peak tour at State Library station before the Melbourne metro opens
Platform level at State Library metro station in Melbourne Platform level at State Library metro station in Melbourne Platform level at State Library metro station in Melbourne Swanston St entrance to State Library metro station in Melbourne
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 15/10/2025
The Dutch, naturally, have this sorted. At this #Delft intersection, people on bikes and pedestrians get a continuous green. The arrival of a car or truck sets off a sensor, which allows it to cross. The default is green for humans, red for cars. Video @modacitylife.com
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Aimee Hulbert @aimeeh.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If the BCA hate it im all for it. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
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Victoria’s work from home plan will drive away jobs, big business warns
Victoria’s biggest employers argue the policy could exacerbate “existing economic challenges” and risk driving jobs across state borders.
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Exclusive: distinguished Prof Fiona Stanley was ‘ashamed’ after the hospital named after her abruptly cancelled an event featuring Palestinian-Australian doctors speaking about their experiences in Gaza, and says she even considered asking the hospital to remove her name
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Fiona Stanley ‘ashamed’ after hospital bearing her name cancelled event featuring Australian Palestinian doctors
Exclusive: Distinguished professor says she considered asking hospital to remove her name after event on doctors’ experiences in Gaza was abruptly called off
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @us.theconversation.com
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Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed
Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 13/09/2025
Tomorrow's a big day for trains on Victoria’s Gippsland line. The timetable is changing, and passenger train frequency between Melbourne and Traralgon is increasing from one every hour to one every 40mins. Let’s take a walk down memory lane to put this in an historical context. (1/7)
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We touched on with our mykis on the Arden station open day yesterday so this is my first official trip on the metro tunnel
Myki travel history screen
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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
At this moment, solar and wind are generating more power than coal in Victoria. Fossil fuels are going to become increasingly irrelevant, particularly when large batteries come on line. Coal=stranded assets
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 19/08/2025
Victorian opposition will commit to building Suburban Rail Loop once ‘holes have been dug’
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Victorian opposition will commit to building Suburban Rail Loop once ‘holes have been dug’
Shadow public transport spokesperson Matthew Guy, who went to two elections vowing to scrap $34.5bn rail loop, says it would ‘cost more to stop project than complete it’ * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Victorian opposition has committed to proceeding with Labor’s signature infrastructure project, the Suburban Rail Loop, if elected to government next year and tunnelling has begun. The Coalition’s public transport spokesperson, Matthew Guy, who previously went to two elections vowing to scrap the $34.5bn project, told an ABC Radio forum on Tuesday there would be no choice but to go ahead with it come November 2026. Continue reading...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
1/ Took a few days off to go biking and kayaking (and yes, eating and drinking in wine country. I thought at first I got lucky scoring a good room rate late, having bike tour to myself, ease of getting reservations. And then I started asking people. And the consensus was tourism was off by 25%-30%.
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Sign for the new Town Hall station almost ready to unwrap #melbourne #metro
Town Hall metro station sign in Collins St, Melbourne
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Walked through the reopened Campbell Arcade today, the direction sign to the new Town Hall station is already there, a little bit early
Campbell Arcade looking towards Flinders St station
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Tony 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 @bonitoclub.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Went on a tour of the new Anzac metro station as part of the Open House Melbourne weekend.
Albert Rd entrance to Anzac metro stationCanopy ceiling at Anzac metro stationPlatform at Anzac metro station
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Remember that odd story before the election about a neurosurgeon tearing down Monique Ryan’s campaign corflute, talking about burying the body under concrete? I decided to investigate. Turns out that behaviour did not exist in a vacuum. Watch #4Corners 8.30pm, ABC TV. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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When video of this surgeon went viral, his colleagues were the least surprised
It took a viral video for Australia to see a side of a celebrated neurosurgeon that some of his colleagues and patients had known about for years.
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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.
Photo of a Nanboku Line 乗り換え 出口案内 (transfer and exit guide) on a station platform.
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